Month: August 2015

Virtual intensive care units (vICUs), which use technology to deliver care to patients in off-site hospitals and clinics, are nothing new. However, these vICUs are becoming more commonplace and are helping to meet the demand for better quality care and an improved patient experience. The goal of a vICU is to ensure patients, especially those in rural areas, have access to quality, safe and cost-effective intensive care. These vICUs require collaboration across units, best practices, standardization of care—and a flexible, reliable and secure IT infrastructure to support the various applications such as remote patient monitoring, electronic health records, and more. Red Hat’s prescription for the IT infrastructure? An open source platform.

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Nearly half, or 49 percent, of Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers have either incorporated Internet of Things (IoT) projects in their organization or plan to by 2016, according to new research from TechValidate. The findings highlight IoT’s importance among companies—especially since industry experts estimate the IoT market could be worth trillions of dollars in 10 years.

Patching is a necessary part of operating system lifecycle management. It is also a requirement of functional compliance as well as regulatory compliance, as called for in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and PCI DSS 2.0. But patching production systems that support critical applications like electronic medical records (EMRs) can make healthcare IT administrators a little uneasy. With a consistent patch strategy that is routinely executed on your Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems, patching can run smoothly. So what’s the best way to do this?

Colombian telecom operator UNE EPM cut its operating, support and maintenance costs quite a bit when it moved from an aging directory server on a proprietary Unix platform—costs that were eating into its profits. A switch to an open source Linux platform changed the dynamic, and you can read more it in this case study.

Healthcare institutions have to adjust more quickly than ever to adapt to an industry in transformation. New technologies, stricter regulations and a laser focus on improving care are all top of mind, and all of these call for reliable, stable and high-performing IT systems. When it came time to replace its aging integration hub, King’s College Hospital (KCH) NHS Foundation Trust chose an open source platform.

SaskTel, Saskatchewan’s leading full-service communications provider, was looking for an innovative solution to store the huge volumes of data streaming in from devices across its network. They also needed a solution that was affordable and improved the customer experience while maintaining data security. Following a short two-week technical trial, SaskTel implemented a Red Hat Gluster Storage solution, giving them a secure, versatile and affordable solution for their data storage. You can learn more about SaskTel’s story in our short video.

The oil and gas industry knows a thing or two about a fluctuating business environment. Right now, it’s weathering a downturn. The price of a barrel of oil is down significantly since a year ago, and as a result oil and gas companies are having to scale back operations and investments. But these tough choices shouldn’t be done in a vacuum. Companies need a clear view of their business data, and in an upcoming webinar, Red Hat and SAP will share ways to get that view. Join in on Wednesday, Aug. 19 at 3 p.m. Eastern.

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Banco Azteca, which operates in Mexico, Panama, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru and Brazil and is among the largest banks in Mexico in terms of coverage, wanted a change. Instead of running its operations on a proprietary UNIX infrastructure, it opted for a fully standardized environment running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Read about Banco Azteca’s migration in this case study, and learn how it saved money, sped up response times and improved its customers’ experience.

Traditional IT operations face pressures from both business and development teams to provide new and innovative services in response to rapidly changing business requirements, which are being powered by mobile clients, the Internet of things (IoT), and the need for real-time responsiveness. The imperative is to serve existing clients through these new avenues while disarming competition. Thus, the focus is now on keeping up with—or better yet, ahead of—the wave of startups that harness the cloud’s rapid business capabilities.

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